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Feb. 5, 1924.

E. W. SMALL GAME Filed Oct. 1 1921 @g1g M4 @Hof/14mg Patented Feb. 5, 1924,

Uhli STATES EUGENE w. SMALL, or new "soak, n. Y.

Glenn.

Application mei october 1, 1921. serial 110.554.614.

To all whom ztmay concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE W. SMALL, a citizen of the United States, residingr at the city of New York, in the borough of Manhatten, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification. 1

The vprincipal purpose of this invention is `to amuse, but at the same time 'it-serves to bring out the risk and uncertainty ofresults in operating in the stock market, the ever present chance of loss, land the fact that while theplayer, or in the case of the i5 person investing Vmoney on the rise or declineof stocks is always exposed to losses, the broker through whomhe operates makes a profit on every transaction.

S0 that the invention, while primarily intended to'amuse, soon impresses theplayer with the fact :that the broker necessarily has a personal business interest ofhis own, which induces him to `encourage :transactions in stocks, not alone because `he may have information b means of which he is induced readily'to velieve that he can give possible warning `or encouragement to the player to enter upon transactions, but in many cases .principally in'orderfthat transactions should be undertaken Vso that his,

the brokers profits therefrom, may besecured fand his vbusiness be enlarged.

'The invention consists of fthe novel features, details ofconstruction and combinaltion of parts, ywhich are particularly set forth, illustrated, and claimed.

In the drawings hereto attached, Figure 1 is a plan view of a dial andan arrow or lpointer, a, adapted to rotate thereon, em- 40 bodyingone feature of the invention, and showing cooperating indicating means Figure 2 is a detailview of a tableor result c'ar'd embodying the results `arising from 'specific indications by the arrow of tliedial.

In accordance with this invention-a suitable card or-like base is provided'withthe dial Figure 1, ldivided, in this eiample of 'my invention, into sixteen equalv sectionsor segments, Yeach numbered beyond the pe- 'vripheryofthe dial from 1 to 16,1the numbers, however, not being disposed around 'the circumference infnumericalorder, but` commencing with the number 1 as shown inv the drawing, disposed as follows: 1, `11, 16, 4, 8, 12, 2, 5, 10, 14, 6, 15, 9, 1-3, 3,'7'or theyv 55 may be disposed irregularly in some other arrangement likely to prevent recognition of the result of a spin of the arrow In the outer end of each segment a list of four stocks by'theirrecognized market lab- 60 breviations are arranged as follows:

1 :Pierce Arrow Amer. Wool Ain. Sugar-Anaconda.

11 N. Y. Cent.-Vanadium.-Retail Stores-Tob. Prod.

16 *Crucible-#Utah Copper-Ind `Alcohol.-Ches. & Ohio.

4 U. S. Steek-*United Fruit-Balt & Ohio-IntfI-Iarv.

12 *Baldwin-Amer. Gar & li"dy.-U.` S. Steel-Marine Pfd.

2 Reading-sAm. Smelters-Inspirationf Cuba Cane. 75

5 North. Pac.-Famous `Players-Chandler-Pur'e'Gil. 1

10` Cen. Leather-#Royal Dutch-Pan Pet-Gt Nor. Pfd.

14 *Studebaker-U S. Rubber-Ves'ting- 80 house-Erie 6 *Gen Asphalte-Int. Paper-Sinclair Can. Pac.

15 Union Pac.-Corn Prod-#Penn R. B Sears Roebuck. @5 9 Republic I. t S.-Genl. Elect.-*Stude baker-Rock ls.

13 South. 'Pao.'-Gen. lMotors--fB'ald win-Am Sumatra.

3 vTexas Oil-Kelly SpringeldAN. Y. 00

N. H. & H.-A.tchison.

7 Am. Internatl-Anr LocomotMPac. Oil-Mo. Pac.. Pfd.

Invp'laying the game Kvthe trader Imakes a proiit of the number of points indicated on the result card when he buys and there is a riseinvhisst'ock or when he sells 1and there is a declineA in'his stock.

The trader has a loss pointsindi'cated on the result'c'ard when he buys and there is a'decline in his-stock, or when he sells'shortand there' is a rise in his-stock.

The trader is ev change.

A star ef the number' et' ico en when there is no ,l n ma may be prefixed td certain. cf the game too extended in stocks, and as shown herein, the stock with star prefixed is afi'ected as follows:

The results are doubled on all transactions in Mexic-an Petroleum and Unitedi Fruit.

The results are double in transactions in Crucible and Baldwin when the result spin is an even number.

The results are doubled in trasactions in Studebaker and General Asphalt when the result spin is an odd number.

The arrow should be turned gently, but it should revolve at least twice after the fingers leave it.

`The result card should not be exposed until the second spin is ended, as the trader may be biased when the point is closed to the line.

The game may be played by two or more persons, one of whom acts as broker. The players must have margins and could be credited with 50 or 100 points margin represented by markers or otherwise to start with; the broker needs no margin for he handles the players margins.

The players put a certain stipulated amount of this margin in a pool or deposit it with the broker, who is not to spin in the game and they get credit for it at the start. Each player gets two spins in turn. The first spin determines his transaction and the second spin determines the result. If the result shows a profitthe player takes such profit out of the pool or has his credit with the broker increased the proper amount. If the result shows a loss, he deposits such loss in the pool or his creditwith the broker is decreased the proper amount. For each spin of the arrow the broker gets one-eighth of one point commission which he extracts from the pool or withdraws from the players credit. The objects of this game can be yeither-- 1. To see how many spins the players can have before the broker gets all the markers or their margin is exhausted.

2. To see whether it is possible after a number of spins that any one player has any more profit than the brokers commissions.

v`If any player has accumulated a profit of 25 points or any other stipulated amount of points, he could have the privilege of quitting with the profit secured or of pyramiding, to` wit: making every transaction double the indicated points; but the player may not pyramid without the brokers fonsent. The brokers commission is doubled in pyramiding and his consent is likely.

If the players should not care to make the time, they could choose their own stock giving the section number, without the first transaction spin and then have the result depend upon one spi-nA of the arrow. l

All matters of dispute are to be decided by the player who is most ahead of the broker, if there should be such, otherwise the broker has the decision.

The following examples will serve as illustrations a. The rst spin is No. 7, the trader se lects Pacific @il to sell short; the second spin is No. l0, the trader looks at No. lO on the result card and finds that the stocks in section 7 had a rise of points; as he had sold it short, he loses 35,; points. It he had bought it instead, he would have made 31g points.

The first spin is No. 3, the trader selects Atchison and buys it; the second spin is No. 6, it is seen on the result card under No. 6 that stocks in section 3 had a rise of point; hence the trader has a profit of point.

c. The first spin is No. 8. The trader selects Mexican Petroleum and buys it; the second spin is No. l. It is noted in No. l on the result card that stocks in section 8 had a rise of two points. If the trader had selected St. Paul in No. 8 to buy instead of Mexican Petroleum, he would have made a profit of 2 points; but it will be seen as `above stated, that all results in Mexican Petroleum are doubled; hence the trader made a profit of 4 points on his Mexican Petroleum transaction.

d. The first spin is No. 12. The trader buys Baldwin. The second spin is No. 9. Under No. 9, stocks in section 12 have a rise of 2 points, hence the trader has a profit of 2 points. Suppose the second spin had been in No. 8, which indicates that stocks in section 12 had a rise of 232- points. but as noted above the results are doubled in Crucible and Baldwin, when the result spin is an even number. Hence, if the second spin had been No. 8, the trader would have had a a profit of 5 points.

It will be understood that the game can also be played by two or more persons without a broker, undersuch provisions as may be agreed upon between them at the commencement of the game.

I am aware that a game is not new which has an indicating caption of columns inscribed with arbitrarily fixed opening, high, low, and closing prices of grain, stocks, and cotton, and a dial therewithalso inscribed with columns of an arbitrarily fixed price o-t' each such grain, stocks and cotton intermingled,together with a pointer adapted to be spun so as to rest upon one of the columns of the dial so inscribed, and a set of tables with numerals calculated to represent the results of specific indications of the dial, and I claim no such device, bute- Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. A game comprising a dial, an arrow adapted to be spun over its face -pivotally insegue mouted thereon, said dial divided into a desired number of segments in each of which the trading names oi a desired number of stocks are inscribed.y each of such segments numbered out of numerical order of arrangement, in combination with a result card, horizontally inscribed with the same number of spaces as the segments oit the dial but arranged in numerical orden each of the spaces containing)r a set of numbers equal to those on the dial, but also arranged out oit numerical order, and inscribed so that a designated portion of such numbers show rise, change, or no change by points, and

others of such numbers show decline, change or no change by points.

2. A game comprising a dial, an arrow adapted to be spun over its face pivotally mounted thereon, said dial divided into sinteen sectors each numbered out of numerical order, and each segment inscribed with the trading name of four stocks, in 'combination with a result card divided into sixteen horizontal parts numbered in numerical order, each part containing the sixteen numbers oi the dial out of numerical order arranged in tivo spaces7 one of such spaces inscribed to show rise, change, or no change by points ot the stocks numbered therein, and the other of such spaces inscribed to show decline, change, or no change, by points, of the stocks numbered therein.

EUGENE W. SMALL. Vitnesses:

HARRY FRANK, THOMAS GARLAND. 

